Va. man pleads guilty to setting off pipe bomb

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- A Roanoke Army veteran has pleaded guilty to blowing up his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend's sport utility vehicle with a pipe bomb in August.

The Roanoke Times reports that 24-year-old Derick Gregory Wilson entered his plea in federal court on Friday, admitting he built the explosive device, placed it on the left front tire, lit the fuse and fled.

Wilson said he was angry that the ex-boyfriend was staying with Wilson's girlfriend until he could move into a new apartment.

No one was injured in the Aug. 1 blast.

After the blast, police found Wilson at his home with another pipe bomb. Wilson says he had been drinking heavily that night.

He faces up to three years and three months in prison when he's sentenced. That hearing has not been scheduled.

John Wilson/KSL-TV/Deseret News via AP). This frame from video shows the scene of a small plane that crashed into a house in Payson, Utah, on Monday, Aug 13, 2018. Authorities said the pilot was killed in the crash.

A Utah man flew a small plane into his own house early Monday just hours after he had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a nearby canyon where the couple went to talk over their problems, authorities said.

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